Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Why are you feeling sick? There are no less than 3 ways to change the
> font--two of which are mentioned in the above-linked post, and the third
> (and, probably, most intuitive) being to edit the font filename in the
> osd.xml file.
>just because i've been banging my head against this problem for a long
while now
> One of the ways in the above-linked post (option a) changes the OSD
> theme such that it defers to the UI-selected font, the "OSD font"
> setting in the frontend settings--which seems to be what you want.
>what i really don't understand is why all the OSD themes don't honour
that setting.
> If you're sick that I didn't tell you this when it was first important
> to you, then, please, pardon me. :)
>not your fault and i'm really not complaining - now i know how to work
around it i'm happy
> Find the exacerbating factor (find why that font doesn't work on /your/
> system--I can't reproduce the issue), and it will be fixed properly. I
> personally hate recommending workarounds--I don't work in the medical
> industry--I'd prefer to fix the problem rather than the symptom.
>my wild unsubstantiated theory is that it has something to do with the
truetype font renderer.
but like i said, this is a wild theory.
--
simon